Publications

Yantis, C., & Taylor, V. J. (accepted). Identity-safety cues racial minorities seek and detect during interactions with Whites. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

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Dickens, D., Taylor, V. J., & Holly, R. (in press). An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Black Women’s Motivations to Attend a Historically Black College for Women. Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education.

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†Valladares, J. V. & Taylor, V. J. (2025). Extending classical dichotomies of intergroup contact: Integrating
sociocultural insights to enrich understanding of interracial contact. https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spc3.70048

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Yantis, C., Green, D. J., & Taylor, V. J. (2025). The Role of Racial Shared Reality in Black Americans’ Identity-Safety During Interracial Interactions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104734

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Yantis, C., Green, D. J., Marshburn, C. K., Johnson, I. R., & Taylor, V. J. (2025). The racial shared reality scale: Capturing Black Americans’ perceived consensus with White Americans about race and racism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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*Taylor, V.J., *Yantis, C. & †Valladares, J. V. (2025). "Will they assume I’m racist?” How racial ingroup members’ stereotypical behavior impacts White Americans’ interracial interaction experiences. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241265260

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Emerson, K. T. U., Taylor, V. J., Stevens, S. M., Logel, C., & Murphy, M. C. (2025). Beyond performance: Stereotype and social identity threat in context. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination, 3rd Edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
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†Alam, R., Bell, A., & Taylor, V. J. (2024). The Roles of Entitativity and Collective Blame in Conservative Opposition Toward BLM and Anti-Racism. Race and Social Problems. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-024-09433-x

Cogburn, C., Taylor, V. J., Fillipone, P., & Oyekoya, O. (in press). Radical and untethered: The health benefits of imagination in virtual reality for black youth. In: Christakis DA, Hale L, eds. Children and Screens: A Handbook on Digital Media and the Development, Health, and Well-being of Children and Adolescents. Cham, Switzerland: Springer: in progress, 2024.

Murphy, M. C., Taylor, V. J., & Steele, C. M. (2024). Stereotype threat: A situated theory of social
cognition. In K. Hugenberg, K. Johnson, and D. Carlston (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

James, D. D., Bonam, C. M., & Taylor, V. J. (2023). Crime in context: Racialized physical space and space-focused racial stereotypes shift person perception. Race and Social Problems, 15, 140-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-022-09361-8

Taylor, V. J., †Siesper, F. C., †Valladares, J. V., & †Knasel, R. (2022). Stereotype threat experiences across social groups: Insights for understanding affirmative action. In A. Deshpande (Ed.), Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action. Springer, Cham

Taylor, V. J., Yantis, C., Bonam, C. M., & †Hart, A. (2021). What do I do? Predicting anticipatory behaviors following ingroup members’ stereotypical behaviors in interracial interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(7), 1084-1100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220960269

Taylor, V. J., †Valladares, J. V., †Siepser, C., & Yantis, C. (2020). Interracial contact in virtual reality: Best-practices. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7(2), 132-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732220943638

Murphy, M. C….Taylor, V. J.… (2020). Open science, communal culture, and women's participation in the movement to improve science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(39), 24154- 24164. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921320117

*Forscher, P. S., *Taylor, V. J., Cavagnaro, D., Lewis, N. A., Jr., Moshontz, H., Batres, C., … Chartier, C. R. (in principle acceptance, 2020). Stereotype threat in Black college students across many operationalizations. Nature Human Behaviour. https://psyarxiv.com/6hju9/

Bonam, C. M., Yantis, C., & Taylor, V. J. (2020). Invisible middle-class Black space: asymmetrical person and space stereotyping at the race-class nexus. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23(1), 24- 47. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430218784189

Taylor, V. J., Brannon, T., & †Valladares, J. V. (2019). Intergroup conflict through a sociocultural lens: How collective histories and memories impact present-day intergroup understandings and misunderstandings. In S. Mukherjee and P. S. Salter (Eds.), History and Collective Memory from the Margins: A Global Perspective. (pg. 3-30). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Ozier, E., Taylor, V. J., & Murphy, M. C. (2019). The cognitive effects of experiencing and observing subtle racial discrimination. Journal of Social Issues, 75(4), 1087-1115. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12349

Taylor, V. J., Garcia, R. L., Shelton, J. N., & Yantis, C. (2018). “A Threat on the Ground”: The consequences of witnessing stereotype-confirming ingroup members in interracial interactions. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24(3), 319-333. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000190

Bonam, C. M., Taylor, V. J., & Yantis, C. (2017). Racialized physical space as cultural product. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11(9), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12340

*Brannon, T., *Taylor, V. J., Higginbotham, G., & Henderson, K. (2017). Selves in contact: How integrating perspectives on sociocultural selves and intergroup contact can inform theory and application on reducing inequality. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11(7), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12326

Brannon, T., Markus, H. R., & Taylor, V. J. (2015). ‘Two Souls, Two Thoughts’, Two self-schemas: Taylor, 6 Adaptive and positive consequences of double consciousness in African-Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108(4), 586-609. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038992

Murphy, M. C., & Taylor, V. J. (2012). The role of situational cues in signaling and maintaining stereotype threat. In M. Inzlicht & T. Schmader (Eds.), Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application. (pp. 17-33). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Taylor, V. J., & Walton, G. M. (2011). Stereotype threat undermines academic learning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(8), 1055-1067. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211406506